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Topic: Running Pianoteq Headless on Arch Linux — No Audio Output

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to evaluate whether I can use Pianoteq on my setup. I have a headless Arch Linux machine running on bare ALSA, connected directly to my speakers and my MIDI keyboard.

When I launch Pianoteq with:

./Pianoteq\ 8 --headless

it runs, but I don’t get any sound or MIDI response. I also saw the --list-audio-devices parameter somewhere and this is what it returns:

./Pianoteq\ 8 --headless --list-audio-devices
No device type is currently selected.

How can I specify the ALSA output device? And should Pianoteq automatically detect my MIDI keyboard, or do I need to configure that manually? If so, how?

Thanks in advance!


(my system specs: Arch Linux (6.16.10-arch1-1, x86_64), CPU: i5-7500T)

Reply by grimborg

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Re: Running Pianoteq Headless on Arch Linux — No Audio Output

I’m not sure it’s the answer you’re looking for, but I must say running headless is a pain, it’s super hard to debug things and change settings. If you can I recommend running it on a desktop environment (on vnc for example if you don’t have a monitor plugged).

(I started on the headless route myself on my odroid and also got stuck, gave up and set up remote desktop, and I must say it’s quite nice to be able to connect via vnc from my laptop or iPad and change instrument and settings).

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Re: Running Pianoteq Headless on Arch Linux — No Audio Output

Thanks for the suggestion! It's a good idea and I've honestly never considered it. I'll try installing Openbox and see if I can connect through VNC.

However, I'd still like to give the pure headless idea one more shot... Plenty of folks seem to have it running on Raspberry Pis, so there’s got to be a way...

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